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Gerrie de Villiers, a white farmer, was driving along a dirt road that borders Zimbabwe when he set off the first Czech-made antitank land mine. He escaped unhurt. About half a mile away, Elijah Makagamatha, a black truck driver, triggered a similar device. He too was unharmed, but the blast shattered the legs of a passenger. The next day another mine explosion killed a 25-year-old black driving a tractor. As security officials combed the area, rocket attacks narrowly missed two coal-to-oil refineries at Secunda, near Johannesburg. The outlawed African National Congress called the attacks...
...Shakespeare's portrait, is learning quickly that all the scholarly world's a stage and all the scholars merely players. "I've always regarded this hoo-ha as slightly absurd," he says, "and once it is over, I shall go back to being as ordinary as dirt." --By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Steven Holmes/London
...several weeks a year. And Villa del Sol, a plush beachfront resort in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, built a suite to Botero's specifications, and hosts the artist there one month each winter. This perpetual motion notches up considerable air miles. But the greatest distance Botero has traveled is from his dirt-poor beginnings. His father battled to keep his family afloat in Medellín - now Colombia's second-largest city (and a center of the country's cocaine business), but an isolated backwater during the 1930s and 1940s - by riding mules over rutted mountain tracks and peddling household items...
...weakness in Nadal's tennis DNA is that Spain routinely produces great dirt ballers who have feet for the slow clay of the French--which rewards baseliners--but who can't serve and volley on the slick grass of Wimbledon or on the high-speed hard courts of the U.S. and Australian opens. Federer has dominated Wimbledon the past two years; Nadal lost to Alexander Waske, ranked 147th in the world, at the grass-court tune-up in Halle. Still, a Wimbledon win is one of Nadal's goals. "If he can get past the first week and some...
...there to excellent use in the tale of Karen Jacobs, a young woman who leaves a dignified but dull job for a terrifying, exhausting--but occasionally glamorous--one at the fictional Glorious Pictures, where even the office dog gets its teeth bleached. The plot is gossamer thin, but the dirt is deep, dark and delicious...